AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

  • 1.1.8 Demonstrate mastery of technology tools for accessing information and pursuing inquiry
  • 1.2.3 Demonstrate creativity by using multiple resources and formats
  • 2.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize information
  • 2.3.1 Connect understanding to the real world
  • 2.4.3 Recognize new knowledge and understanding

National Educational Technology Standards for Students(NETS•S)

  • 2a. Student understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology
  • 3a. Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity
  • 3b. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works
  • 4a. Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences
  • 4b. Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences

Georgia Performance Standards

  • ELA7W1 The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and provides a satisfying closure. The student
    a. Selects a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose,genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.
    b. Writes texts of a length appropriate to address the topic or tell the story.
    c. Uses traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question).
    d. Uses appropriate structures to ensure coherence (e.g., transition elements).
    e. Supports statements and claims with anecdotes, descriptions, facts and statistics, and specific examples.

  • ELA7W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres. The student produces a narrative (fictional, personal, experiential) that:
    b. Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.


  • ELA7W3 The student uses research and technology to support writing. The student
    a. Identifies topics, asks and evaluates questions, and develops ideas leading to inquiry, investigation, and research.
    b. Gives credit for both quoted and paraphrased information in a bibliography by using a consistent and sanctioned format and methodology for citations.
    c. Includes researched information in different types of products (e.g., compositions, multimedia presentations, graphic organizers, projects, etc.).
    d. Documents sources.
    e. Uses electronic media to locate relevant information.